Thirty-six million people currently live with AIDS, a disease that claimed the lives of nearly 1 million people last year. Experts predict that by 2030, 100 million people will have been infected with the HIV virus.

Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli have made a new friend in a dog in England. The latest Instagram post of he cricketer features him, his wife and a “beautiful boy”. The caption of the cute click reads, “Met this beautiful boy who was patient enough to take a picture with us ??” Going by the picture, it seems Virushka (as Virat and Anushka’s fans love to address them) were out for grocery shopping where they met their furry friend.

It would do well to ponder, further, on ‘Features of the Mind’ as explained by the Buddha according to ‘The Buddha’s Explanation of the Universe’ by C. P. Ranasinghe, my teacher at my alma mater Ananda College, Colombo in the 1950s, to mark this year’s Nikini Full Moon Poya Day falling today, 25 August 2018.

The Attorney General (AG) yesterday (24), filed charges against former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and six others in the Special High Court (SHC) over the alleged misappropriation of Rs 49 million from State coffers in order to construct the D.A. Rajapaksa museum at Weeraketiya......during the last regime.